MOTHER INDIA BLEEDS AS HER DAUGHTERS ARE. RAPED

The gruesome Delhi gangrape of Nirbhaya in December 2012, the massive protests across India, Justice Verma Committee's commitment, the amended anti-rape law and the tall promises of political leaders have not made any dent on those who continue to rape because of the lack of fear of law and the officials who are to enforce the law.

Now the child rapes are increasing exponentially. Delhi has witnessed two rapes of 5- year old children. The child who got a lot of media attention was kidnapped, kept in a room without food or water, repeatedly raped by two men for two or three days, and abandoned. The police investigation was indifferently done, and the shameful matter was the BRIBE OF Rs.2000 OFFERED TO THE FATHER OF THE CHILD BY THE POLICE NOT TO GO TO THE MEDIA. The protests that followed did not make any one accountable. The Police Chief refused to resign ; instead he gave a lecture on moral depravity of the rapists. During the same period another 5- year old was found in the premises of AIIMS ;she was also the victim of rape. The doctors attending on the first child said that they have not seen such brutality on the body of a child rape victim. Far away in Madhya Pradesh a4- year old was raped and her brain was injured. All these three kids are undergoing treatment.

In UP, the jungle Raj of India, a6-year old was abducted, raped, killed and dumped in a pit . The police thrashed the protesters. A police officer's savage attack on an elderly protester is stomach-turning; she was a frail woman.At Bulandshahr a 10- year old girl was kept in the lock-up in a women's police station for complaining about a person who raped her in a field..the Supreme Court issued notices suo motu. Barely after a week after this incident, at Afzelgarh the father of a 16- year old girl was beaten by the police for asking the police to register a case against two men who raped her.

Police force is the biggest threat to the safety and security of our girls and women. Well the police does not spare any one . The protectors are in fact the predators. The police personnel generally ( NOT ALL, BUT MOST ) are corrupt and criminalised. In Kerala the media reported of police officers hiring quotation (killer ) groups to settle scores with their opponents. In this scenario what is the HOPE for Bharath Mata's children?

JUSTICE (? ) OF PEACE

Magistrate: Dictionary defines as Public Officer responsible to administer law and justice.          : United Kingdom : Magistrate is known as JUSTICE OF PEACE.

Magistrates in India are criticised for being mechanically remanding persons brought before them to police custody or judicial custody for two weeks.The Supreme Court has passed strictures on this tendency more than once.. Instead of administering law most of the Magistrates simply function as extensions of Police.

Gunavati means a woman possessing good qualities as a person. In Tamilnadu Judicial Service there is an officer called Gunavati (source :newspapers ).In 2000 she remanded one woman to custody for two weeks..the woman was cheated by her lover once he learnt that she was pregnant.. She complained to the police. When taken to the Magistrate , Gunavati remanded her without any enquiry. The complainant became the accused , who did not know why the Magistrate sent her to custody.  DNA test showed that the person who cheated her was responsible for her pregnancy.

It took more than twelve years for the case to be decided upon, Gunavati filed false affidavit before the High Court denying any wrong-doing. The High Court ordered that Gunavati should compensate the complainant with Rs 100,000 with costs amounting to Rs. 10,000. The court passed severe stricture on the conduct of Gunavati and recommended the state government to initiate disciplinary action against her.

A great judgement, no doubt. But it took more than ten years to get justice for the woman whose right  of free movement and liberty was deprived by a judicial authority arbitrarily., thanks to a determined lawyer and the majesty of higher judiciary.

DEATH TRAPS CALLED HOUSES IN MAHARASHTRA

A seven-storey building in two months. Unapproved structure with low quality construction materials. One unsuspecting day the building collapsed like a pack of cards in a matter of minutes. More than seventy people were killed, and many more were injured. IT WAS IN MUMBRA in Thane District. The Maharashtra government was generous enough in announcing a paltry compensation of INR 200,000 per life lost.

It is reported that 90% of the buildings in MUMBRA  are structures without approval. The Maharashtra government admitted in 2010 that 5,00,000 buildings in Thane district were illegal. Building mafia grab public land and construct unauthorised buildings. The nexus of politicians,bureaucrats ,police officials and builders manages everything smoothly. EVERY HAND IS BRIBED. A national TV channel exposed through a secret operation the bribes taken by 36 police officials. The exposure forced the government to suspend the concerned officials without going deeper into the corrupt network. As regards the suspension it normally is a temporary change of environment.

The MUMBRA structures are death traps. Human tragedies are waiting to happen to those who live in such houses.

We have Ministers, MPs, MLAs, Local Body Representatives , and officials . BUT THERE IS NO GOVERNMENT. The people are duty bound to elect their representatives to LOOT public money.

PEOPLE WANT WATER, MINISTER OFFERS HIS URINE

Many districts in India are drought-hit. Maharashtra's most districts face acute water crisis. Desperate people requested Deputy Chief Minister ( who is also Irrigation and Power Minister ) to arrange water. At a public function Minister Ajit Pawar said that the only way is FOR HIM TO  URINATE IN THE DAM. He then had a hearty laugh and his cronies shared his laughter. Minister could not control his glee and laughter.

Minister Ajit Pawar had a shock waiting for him when the media , political parties , and civil society turned their guns towards him baying for his political blood. Minister first offered excuse that what he said was a jovial comment. But even his party NCP found it impossible to defend him. So he apologised. But that is not satisfying his critics who are in the majority.

Minister Ajit Pawar's remarks are atrociously insensitive . It is inconceivable that a Minister, instead of offering help to the suffering people , dared to insult them and the dignity of the electorate. Yet he is still allowed to continue as Minister because of the clout of his political formation,  and the coalition Compulsions of the Govt leadership .The least Ajit Pawar Could do is to RESIGN . But his uncle and NCP chief Sharad Pawar asks why his nephew should resign as he has already offered his apology.. Senior Pawar is CORRECT because he and his Party are aware that the voters are fickle and they will vote for the URINE FOR WATER Minister. And that too with  a massive mandate .

Marie Antoinette , French Queen till 1792, is still quoted for her infamous remarks "LET THEM EAT CAKE " when her hungry people were begging for bread.Though she was executed by Guillotine in 1793 after the French Revolution, human memory is still fresh all over the world. The appalling apathy of our ruling elites manages to continue because of our democratic system with all the weaknesses. Otherwise how we, the people of India, could absorb mind-boggling scams , scandals, corruption and atrocities calmly?

PERILS OF LONGEVITY

Sania from Haryana almost made history when the President Of India turned down her mercy plea to save her from the gallows during the first week of April .However the Supreme Court order of interim stay of the hanging has given her some reprieve. She and her husband Sanjeev were sentenced to death in 2007 for killing her father and Seven others over family property in 2001.If the stay is vacated she will be the first woman to be hanged to death in India.

Social Welfare magazine reported a case by a Psychiatric Social Worker attached to a Mental Hospital in UP some years ago about the plight of a retired Govt officer in his sixties. He was admitted as a seriously mentally ill in the hospital. The new social worker interviewed the " patient" and visited the various places and met persons known to him according to the desire of the person. The person was the owner of a huge property and his wife and son found him inconvenient for their plans.So he was taken to the Mental Hospital. The Psychiatrist obviously obliged in return for a hefty professional fee.

Kalyani of Chennai city belonged to an aristocratic family. She considered her a blessed woman with a son, a pilot working in an airlines, a sweet daughter-in-law, and a 10-year old grandson. She did not feel the loss of her husband in a caring family. Her seventieth birthday was celebrated in a grand manner. The guests and relatives said that they were jealous of her. Kalyani was elated. After some weeks she bequeathed her entire property, bank balance, and her beautiful house. She visited some places of worship and returned with peace of mind. Kalyani's peace was shattered in a few weeks. Minor quarrels led to major ones initiated by her daughter-in-law who has become bitter. One night when her son was away the quarrel resulted in the daughter-in-law punching  Kalyani on her face. She had to run out with bleeding nose to her neighbour's house. Kalyani now is an inmate of a charitable home for the aged.

Income security is important in old age. But excess of income can be a cause of misery and even untimely death.